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GeoJunior for the Geographic Children
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The AnyGeo blog links to GeoJunior, a geomagazine and website for children. From their about page: "[...] it is essential that we create a portal of self-learning for the children of the country, linking geography and spatial sense to their upbringing. In other words, earth science in the broader sense should work like a language to their knowledge base. Besides these, there is an intense social opportunity with the elders to transfer knowledge on earth science to children."
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